serendipity

Example Sentences

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New ideas spring, as if by serendipity, from individuals.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 16, 2025

The two messaged back and forth about the serendipity of it all, and needless to say, “the date went really well,” Derraugh said, smiling shyly.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 25, 2025

A few years later, Henson and his wife, Gayle, opened a dude ranch in Santa Barbara County called, in a stroke of eventual marketing serendipity, Hidden Valley Ranch.

From Salon • Jun. 1, 2025

"It's pure serendipity that 2024 became the year these films were released, igniting conversations together."

From BBC • Dec. 28, 2024

This was serendipity itself; with the fall of the Nationalists, other Chinese students had become as illegitimate as he.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen